006 - Olya Yakzhina - How To Get Employee Engagement Right

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Another awesome conversation to bring you today with one of the brightest minds in People & Culture today... The one and only, Olya Yakzhina 🤘🏻 Head of People @ remote-first tech startup, Switchee. Olya is also Co-Founder of the People Stories slack community 🙌🏻

The main practical takeaway in this episode, Olya walks me through the headlines of Switchee's employee engagement framework. In the process we touched on so many interesting and insightful areas:

⚡Remote-first "dos and don'ts"
⚡The isolation that often comes with being the People Lead
⚡The People Ops balance: People Needs & Business Needs
⚡Bringing the SLT and wider business with you
⚡The difference between satisfaction and pure joy in people experience
⚡How to interpret engagement data and what you should take action on

I can't wait to have Olya back in the virtual PX Espresso studio, so much more knowledge and experience to tap from one of the best in our profession.

As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too 🤘🏻🎙️

Guest Bio:

Olya is a progressively-minded Head of People in a tech scaleup Switchee. She is a co-Founder of the People Stories slack community, which hosts over 1100 highly engaged People-people who are on the same mission - making every employee's experience awesome! To spread the word of positive people practices, she runs The Modern Employer podcast.

Contact Olya:

Email: olya.yakzhina@switchee.co
Olya Yakzhina | LinkedIn

Contact Luke:

Email: luke@sapienx.co.uk
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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